Sanding drum

2/22/23, 7:50 PM #1

Svante
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Sanding drum

Hi,

Normally I do not like shaping by sanding because it is both tedious and creates a lot of dust. However, when I looked at the curly grain of the ash lumber, I got afraid of tear-out. So, instead of using my spiral copying shaper cutter I tried a copy drum sander made for a shaper. After band sawing the curved side of the cabinet leg, they were mounted in a jig. With a 120 grit sand paper the drum sander can take approx 1 mm at the time, so after 3 passes they were ready.

The surface is not perfect but fair and above all no tearout. Even more surprising was that the dust collection worked so well. It seems that all dust were taken care of.

Regards,

Svante

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2/22/23, 8:03 PM #2

Dick Coers
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I've never had any issues machining curly ash. That just amplifies the tragedy of the disappearance of ash trees. They were such a gift to woodworkers.

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2/28/23, 7:12 PM #3

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I had a huge ash tree in my yard, about 4 feet in diameter. It died before the bugs got to it. We had to cut it down. And after years of dreaming, it turned out that the whole thing was rotted out.

Once it was hit by lightning. The tree was about ten feet from where we were sitting in the dining room. On the far side, it blew out a section of the tree, and our field looked like a rack of 2x4 had been scattered. Had anyone been under the tree, or if it had blow towards the house, it would have been interesting.

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2/28/23, 7:14 PM #4

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A very reliable solution for heavy tear out, particularly in very fragile woods like Osage, is a toothing plane. Not that you need to worry with the results your got. But for others, all you need is a toothing blade for an existing plane.

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